What's New in 4.8.8.

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Release date: 1 August 2013
 This is the last stable release (SR) for v4.8.8
 [Kriging plug-in]Made some minor improvements to prevent crashes when using large point
shapefiles. (Paul Meems)
 Added a dialect projection for EPSG:32633 (Paul Meems)
 [MapWinGIS] New methods: Shapefile.set_ShapeCategory2(shapeIndex, categoryName),
Shapefile.set_ShapeCategory3(shapeIndex, category),
ShapefileCategories.get_CategoryIndex(category),
ShapefileCategories.get_CategoryIndexByName(name) to provide more friendly API. (Sergei Leschinsky)
 [GraphPlugin] Made some minor changes.(Paul Meems)
 [mwSwat] Distances to weather stations now measured in projected units (metres). (Chris
George)
 Minor change of the message for the user when the projection is found (Paul Meems)
 Fix for issue #2309: Zoom to selected. Conflict between old selection code and new code, is fixed
now (Paul Meems)
 Fix for issue #2308: Create Centroids always crashes MapWindow (Paul Meems)

What's New in 4.8.8.0

Release date: 10 June 2013
 This is the first Release Candidate (RC1) for v4.8.8

What's New in 4.8.7.6

Release date: 10 June 2013
 Several fixes for the 'Clip Grid With Polygon'-tool (Chris George)
 Adjusted the Validate tool so that it detects null shapes in a shapefile (Brad Hester)
 Updated the HasInvalidShapes method of the Shapefile class to return TRUE if one of the shapes
is NULL. (Brad Hester)
 Fixed issue #2303: Null shape generates exception in 'Clean up' of Shapefile Editor (Paul Meems)
 Fixed issue #2302: Null shape generates exception in 'Update Measurements' of Table Editor
(Paul Meems)
 Fixed issue #2275: Can not join a csv file to a shapefile with the new Attribute Table Editor if the
data contains double quotes (Paul Meems)
 Fixed issue #2296: If "Basename new gridfiles" is left blank an exception is raised (Paul Meems)
 Changes for SWAT2012 (Chris George)
 Updated the ClipGridWithPolygon tool. It is now also possible to select an image layer (Paul
Meems)
 Fields are copied when calling BufferByDistance on a shapefile without the merge option specified
(Brad Hester)
 Fixed issue #2295: Shapefile editor insert generates invalid polygons (Paul Meems)
 When opening an old MapWindow project the users can select to convert it to the new format.
This will convert the old-style labeling and the old-style coloring (Paul Meems)
 The new Buffer Shapes tool honors the Merge Results checkbox on its form. Adjusted GIS tools to
prevent throwing an exception when working with in memory shapefiles. (Brad Hester)
 Utils.CopyNodataValues method added. Copies nodata values between 2 rasters of the same size
(Sergei Leschinsky)
 A fix for the problem with selection of multipart polylines (Sergei Leschinsky)
 Fields are copied when calling BufferByDistance on a shapefile without the merge option specified
(Brad Hester)
 Added a tool for Utils.GdalWarp (Paul Meems)
 Added Utils.MaskRaster() (Sergei Leschinsky)
 Added a tool for Utils.GdalBuildVTR() (Paul Meems)
 Added the GridColorAnalyser plug-in, created by Maurits van Ravesteijn
 Updated the GDALWarp method to use the specified source files and destination file (Brad
Hester)
 Removed double click handlers. These were added to keep the map from jumping when the user
double clicks in pan mode, but additional changes prevent the jumping without having to intercept the
double click events (which is better) (Brad Hester)
 Updated the Shapefile::SimplifyLines() method to prevent crashing when a global callback is not
specified (Brad Hester)
 Added extra error checking when get information about layers from the map control (Brad Hester)
 Fixed issue #24005 (reported at codeplex): Cannot create attribute table if application working
directory is not writable (Brad Hester)
 Fixed issue #2285: Added support for merging 3D shapefiles (Brad Hester)
 Moving the mouse over the map does not cause the map to pan unless the user first clicked on
the map (Brad Hester)
 Fixed issue #2283: sfClose() returns an error with an in-memory shapefile (Brad Hester)
 Fixed issue #2283: Ascii grid display off by one cell (Brad Hester)
 Updated VnRPToolkit (Bhaskar Reddy Pulsani)
 Added a tool for Utils.OGR2OGR() (Paul Meems)
 Improvements to Kriging plugin (Chris George):
 uses memory if possible to save recalculation of distances and SemiVariances
 supports polylines as well as points (so can be used to convert contours to dems)
 better estimate of sill
 can change lag or number of lags
 minor efficiency improvements
 Added a tool for Utils.GdalAddo() (Paul Meems)
 Map no longer jumps when double clicking while in Pan mode. Cursor no longer changes when
not over the map (Brad Hester)
 Fixed issue #2269: Context menu in legend is no longer working (Paul Meems)
 Fixed issue #2253 - Adjusted image positions and sizes (Brad Hester)
 Finished implementation of Utils.OGR2OGR() (Brad Hester)
 Finished implementation of Utils.GDALAddOverviews() (Brad Hester)

What's New in 4.8.7.5

Release date: 11 January 2013
 Updated TauDEM executables to v5.0.6 (Chris George & Paul Meems)
 Removed old, duplicate tools from the toolbox (Paul Meems)
 Replaced the Table Editor with the new rewritten one (Paul Meems)
 Added a tool for Utils.GdalInfo (Paul Meems)
 Added a tool for Utils.TranslateRaster (Paul Meems)
 Added a tool to show the formats OGR can handle (Paul Meems)
 Added a tool to show the formats GDAL can handle (Paul Meems)
 Added a tool to show the version of GDAL MapWindow is using (Paul Meems)
 Start implementing Utils.OGR2OGR() (Brad Hester)
 Start implementing Utils.GDALAddOverviews() (Brad Hester)
 Start implementing Utils.GDALBuildVrt() (Brad Hester)
 Start implementing Utils.GDALRasterize() (Brad Hester)
 Start implementing Utils.GDALWarp() (Brad Hester)
 Implemented Utils.OGRInfo() (Brad Hester)
 Update the validate tool: it is now checking first if the shapefile has invalid shapes, before
counting and showing them (Paul Meems)
 Update the fixup tool: speed uptimizations + adding projection (Paul Meems)
 Implemented the callback for the Utils.Polygonize() method (Brad Hester)
 Added Utils.GDALInfo() method (Brad Hester)
 Updated Utils.TranslateRaster() to be consistent with GDAL 1.9 (Brad Hester)
 Added HasInvalidShapes() to the Shapefile class (Brad Hester)
 Fixed issue #2238 - Updated the Shapefile::Union() method so that it no longer crashes when
one of the shapefiles has invalid shapes (Brad Hester)
 Fixed issue #2237 - Shapes without points are skipped when FixUpShapes() is called for a
shapefile (Brad Hester)
 Updated Shape::FixUp() to support fixing a couple of issues (Brad Hester)
 Fixed request #1368: Shapefile Editor - Shown vertices aren't hidden (Brad Hester)
 Fixed issue #2214 - Vertices are no longer hidden when editing a shapefile with the Shapefile
Editor (Brad Hester)
 Added a tool to easily update the current version of MapWindow with the latest SVN version:
http://www.mapwindow.org/phorum/read.php?4,24284 (Paul Meems)
 Fixed request #2215: After adding a vertex go to Move vertex (Brad Hester)
 Added the polygonize tool to the toolbox (Paul Meems)
 Added 11 new jpg texture files, which can be used in the symbology (Paul Meems)
 Fixed issue #2170: sf.GetIntersection returns Null (Brad Hester)
 Added Utils.Polygonize(), based on GDAL_Polygonize.py (Wasim Sabir)
 Fixing issue #1517: [Interface] by adding an additional check for the raw format of the image (Paul
Meems)
 Fixed issue #1847: [SF Editor] Adding Vertexes extremely slow (Brad Hester)
 Fixed issue #2209: [SF Editor] Repeated clicking of "Zoom In" and "Add Shape" produces error
(Brad Hester)
 Fixed issue #1060: [SF Editor] Adding shape points with coordinate box doesn't work (Brad
Hester)
 Fixed issue #2172: Visibility resulting in no shapes will cause crash (Brad Hester)
 Removed obsolete registry entries that cause registry cleaners to incorrectly unregister
MapWinGIS (Brad Hester)
 Fixed issue #2221: [New table Editor] Update measurements is not disabled for point shapefiles
(Paul Meems)
 Fixed issue #2219: [New table Editor] Update measurements throws an exception when the
shapefile doesn't have a projection (Paul Meems)
 Fixed issue #2216: [New table Editor] Adding a field, removing it again and adding it once more
doesn't work (Paul Meems)
 Fixed issue #2223: [New table Editor] Opening Point Sources from Newton Sample project in the
New table editor causes exception about null values (Paul Meems)
 Updated mwGPS to fix issue #2200: MapWindow crashes once GPS fix is OK (Jose Julio
Zancajo)
 Fixed issue #2203: ASCII Grids cells are not equal size (Wasim Sabir)

What's New in 4.8.7.4

Release date: 28 september 2012
 Added the 'Clip Grid with Polygon' tool to the toolbox (Paul Meems)
 Added the 'Zonal statistics' tool to the toolbox (Paul Meems)
 .vrt extension is added to Image.CdlFilter property (Sergei Leschinsky)
 Fixed issue #2207: Field calculator shapes function not working (Paul Meems)
 Fixed issue #1344: It is now possible to open 1023 shapefiles at once (Wasim Sabir)
 Fix for Image.ProjectionToImage and Image.ImageToProjection which could work wrong for GDAL
images (Sergei Leschinsky)
 Updated Spatial Index library to version 1.7.1 (Wasim Sabir)
 Fixed issue #2092: Error when adding shapefile from a read-only network directory (Brad Hester)
 Added the ability to natively join external data to a shapefile, in the new table editor (Sergei
Leschinsky)
 Fixed issue #1019: Error in Grid.set_Value for GridDataType=BinaryDataTz (Brad Hester)
 Added libCurl to GDAL. Needed for WMS/WFS support. Disabled for now. (Paul Meems)
 Added ESRI FileGDB support to GDAL and MapWinGIS. Disabled for now. (Paul Meems)

What's New in 4.8.7.3

Release date: 17 August 2012
 Updated mwGPS plug-in (Jose Julio Zancajo)
 MinX, MinY stats added to Utils.GridStatisticsToShapefile. They define the coordinates of the
minimum value. (Sergei Leschinsky)
 Fixed a GDI leak in the SnapShot method (Brad Hester)
 Utils.GridStatisticsToShapefile method is added (aka Zonal statistics). It calculates a number of
statistics for grid cells within each of the polygons of input shapefile and saves the result in attribute table
of the shapefile. (Sergei Leschinsky)
 Updated the new table editor: Load only first 1000 records, with option to load all records with a
button (Jeen de Vegt)
 Opening a VRT-file (made by gdalbuildvrt.exe) as image is possible and fast. This will allow of
grouping image files as one layer (Paul Meems)
 A fix to handle correctly transparent color (noDataValue) for a single band images (grids) rooted
through GDAL (Sergei Leschinsky)
 New Utils.ClipGridWithPolygon method based on scanning algorithm (quite fast) (Sergei
Leschinsky)
 Fixed issue #1431: GDI Leak caused by resizing the control (Brad Hester)
 Updated GDAL to v1.9.1 (Paul Meems)
 Updated LizardTech-SDK (MG4 (Raster and LiDAR), MG3, MG2, JP2) to version 8.5 (Paul
Meems)
 Updated GEOS to version 3.3.5, released 2012-06-25 (Paul Meems)
 Updated Proj4 with SVN version of July 27, 2012 (Paul Meems)

What's New in 4.8.7.2

Release date: 17 July 2012
  Added the SwiftD plug-in to the installer (Paul Meems)
 Added the Shapefile2grid plug-in back to the installer (Paul Meems)
 Added the 'Interactive clipping' tool, to clip a shapefile layer with the current extent. (Paul Meems)
 Updated proj4 library to v4.8 (Paul Meems)
 Table editor: New version created from scratch, not yet finished (Jeen de Vegt)
 AWD: Use Manhattan Shapes to make watershed shapefile (Chris George)
 #2136: Shape.PointInThisPoly redirected to Utils.PointInPolygon (Sergei Leschinsky)
 Image to Map plug-in: Several bug fixes and improvements. (Gerd Dowideit)
 Google Geocoder: Fixed issues with diacritic characters (é è, etc.). (Paul Meems)
 Google Geocoder: Fixed issue with returning error code 620. (Paul Meems)
 MapWinGeoProc: Skip creating centroids for invalid shapes. (Paul Meems)
 mwTiles: Updated some URLs and added support for BING maps and some other improvements.
(Mark Gray, Paul Meems)
 A fix for pie charts. Prevents the drawing of empty sectors (value is 0.0). (Sergei Leschinsky)
 A fix: possible problems on updating extents for point shapefiles. (Sergei Leschinsky)
 AddedShapefile.Segmentize method - splits polyline into parts in case it is intersected or touched
by other polyline. (Sergei Leschinsky)
 Sync with labels fixed in Shapefile.EditDeleteShape and coordinates for the counter clockwise
polygon are added to the error message in Shape.get_IsValid. (Sergei Leschinsky)
 The Surface is added correctly in the Kriging plug-in. (Carlos Andres Osorio)
 Changes for Shapefile.Simplify so it can handle multipart polygons properly. (Sergei Leschinsky)
 Validity checks for GEOSGeometry to Shape conversion, invalid shapes will be automatically
substituted by buffering in the same way Shape.FixUp works. (Sergei Leschinsky)

What’s New in 4.8.7.1

Release date: 23 January 2012
 A correction to string handing in Shape.get_IsValid. (Sergei Leschinsky)
 Shortcuts for some commonly used methods are added:
 Shapefile.EditAddShape,
 Shapefile.EditAddField,
 Table.EditAddField,
 Shape.AddPoint.
All the methods allow to add a new object in the end of the list, so there is no need to specify the
index. In case of points and fields there is also no need to create an instance on the client side,
but only to pass parameters, which spares some lines of code. (Sergei Leschinsky)
 A minor fix in Shape.Relates. (Sergei Leschinsky)
 A fix to progress counter in Validate tool. (Sergei Leschinsky)
 A fix for BufferByDistance function. (Sergei Leschinsky)
 The 'Rectify image to worldfile' is removed from the toolbox. Use the 'Image to map' plug-in
instead. (Paul Meems)
 The 'Acad Exporter' plug-in is added to the installer and is updated to work with MapWindow
v4.8.6. (Paul Meems)
 Added SaveOptions and LoadOptions to the interface to handle .mwsymb files. (Paul Meems)
 ShapeDrawingOptions.DrawingMode property is changed. It used to be turned off in recent
versions (the drawing mode was chosen automatically). The automatic selection remains but now
it's possible to override it by setting vdmGDIPlus value to force the program use GDI+ drawing
with smoothing. Other values specified by user (vdmGDI and vdmGDIMixed) won't override
automatic selection. (Sergei Leschinsky)
 A small leak in Image.Open fixed (filename string wasn't released). (Sergei Leschinsky)
  Map.set_ShapeLayerPointType restored for the new symbology (redirected to
DefaultDrawingOptions). (Sergei Leschinsky)
 #2117: Shapefile.SelectShapes() didn't work for POLYGON_M and POLYGON_Z shapefiles when
tolerance was set to 0. (Sergei Leschinsky)
 #1449: A check for point order added for single-parted polygons in Shape.IsValid function. (Sergei
Leschinsky)
 #2123: Fixes for handling null shapes. (Sergei Leschinsky)
 #2106: With Legend.Snapshot the extended state of the layers will be used, i.e. if the layer is
collapsed in MW4 (no categories are shown), it will be drawn in the same fashion at snapshot.
(Sergei Leschinsky)
 Kriging plug-in: Matrix close to singular exception is being captured correctly. (Carlos Osorio)
 Image to Map plug-in: Several bug fixes and improvements. (Gerd Dowideit)
 Several memory leaks removed: Shape.Clone, Shape.IsValid, GeoProjection.ReadFromFile,
GeoProjection.WriteToFile, Shapefile.PointInShape, Shapefile.GetIntersection, Shapefile.Union,
Shapefile.Clip. (Sergei Leschinsky)

What’s New in 4.8.6 (Stable Version)

Release date: 9 November 2011
 A few minor issues have been fixed

What’s New in 4.8.5 (Beta release)

 Assign projection tool. (Sergei Leschinsky)
 Projection dialects. (Sergei Leschinsky)
 Projections database converted to SQLite format. (Sergei Leschinsky)
 Basic code for database support - will be developed further (ShapefileDataClient class,
IDataProvider interface). (Sergei Leschinsky)
 'Export shapefile to database' tool. (Sergei Leschinsky)
 Made the GEOS library static. geos.dll is no longer needed. (Sergei Leschinsky)
 Modified menu icons and toolbar images, created by DaPino (http://dapinographics.com/)
 Added label icon to the legend for quick access to label set-up. (Sergei Leschinsky)
 Fixed issue #1987: Exception in ClipGridWithPolygon. (Paul Meems)
 Fixed issue #1997: Reprojecting .tifs gives bad results. (Chris George)

What’s New in 4.8 R3 (4.8.4)

 Numerous enhancements and bug fixes in the symbology plug-in. (Sergei Leschinsky)
 The DotSpatial projection library has been removed again, because it was not mature enough.
GDAL/OGR with Proj4 and a EPSG database is now implemented for handling the projections. (Sergei
Leschinsky)
 Because the projection routine is now in the OCX, several classes and properties (GeoProjection
class) have been added. (Sergei Leschinsky)
 The GDAL library has been upgraded to v1.8.1 (Paul Meems)
 The GEOS library has been upgraded to v3.3.0. (Paul Meems)
 Made the Proj4 library static, meaning no need for a separate proj.dll anymore. (Paul Meems)
 Removed the Xerces library, because it wasn't used. (Paul Meems)
 Several hard-coded settings have been added as applications settings. (Tevaganthan Veluppillai)
 Several issues with the print lay-out tool have been fixed. (Brian Marchionni)
 Some icons in the menu and toolbar were updated or added. (Paul Meems)
 The print lay-out tool is using a default template on open, making instant maps. (Paul Meems)
 A plug-in base class was added, making it even easier to create plug-ins. (Matthew Klein)
 The GIS Tools have been converted to a Toolbox and you can add custom tools to it as well. And
several new tools have been added. (Sergei Leschinsky)
 A set of raster tools were added. (Bhaskar Reddy Pulsani)
 The documentation has been updated: http://www.mapwindow.org/apps/wiki/doku.php (Dan
Ames)
 The MapWindow website has been updated: http://www.mapwindow.org/ (Dan Ames)
 Added several images that can be used as point symbols in the new symbology. (Paul Meems)
 Changed the mouse cursors. (Paul Meems)
 The table editor has been improved; it is much faster now. (Sergei Leschinsky)
 The ocx can now read and write project files. (Sergei Leschinsky)
 Added World Topo Map and World Street Map from ArcGIS Online as tiles servers to the tiles
plug-in. (Paul Meems)
 Added dynamic visibility to the tiles in the tiles plug-in. This makes zooming much faster. (Paul
Meems)
 Added the 'Validate shapefile' tool to the toolbox, makes the errors visible. (Sergei Leschinsky)
 When doing spatial operations (union, etc.) invalid shape with small areas (<1m2) are not added
to the result file. (Sergei Leschinsky)
 Implemented MapWinGeoProc.SpatialOperations.ConvexHull. (Paul Meems)
 Created MapWinGeoProc.SpatialOperations.CreateCentroids. (Paul Meems)
 Added 'Create centroid' tool to the toolbox. (Paul Meems)
 Improved memory handling and other minor changes to the AWD plug-in. (Paul Meems)
 Link to Donate page (http://www.mapwindow.org/pages/donate.php) added to the Help
menu, Welcome screen and installer. (Paul Meems)
 Added help file about how to install MPICH for TauDEM. (Paul Meems)
 Fix invalid shapes is added as a tool in the toolbox.(Sergei Leschinsky)

And of course a lot of bugs have been fixed.

Use http://bugs.mapwindow.org for a list.
Most enhancements to the ActiveX control can be found here: http://mapwingis.codeplex.com/wikipage?
title=Version%20history

What’s New in 4.8 R2 (4.8.3)

 The installer was enhanced. It will now detect if previous versions of MapWindow has been
installed and will uninstall it. (Paul Meems)
 The GDAL library has been upgraded to v1.8. (Paul Meems)
 The GEOS library has been upgraded to v3.3.0 RC2. (Paul Meems)
 The LizardTech SDK has been upgraded to v8. (Paul Meems)
 The ECW library has been upgraded to v4.2. (Paul Meems)
 The toolbar has been changed, it has been split in several smaller ones, larger and new button
images are used. (Paul Meems)
 The menu has been reordered. (Paul Meems)
 The projections library from our sister project: DotSpatial has been added. This did increase the
size of the installer to 43MB. (Matthew Klein)
 A new symbology routine has been added. This is probably the largest and most exciting change.
It is now possible to use gradient, textures and hatching to fill your polygons. Icons, fonts and symbols can
be used for your points and you can create custom line styles be combining different lines together.
The new symbology routine includes working with categories and color schemes.
A new labeler has been added and charts (bar or pie) can be added to your maps. (Sergei Leschinsky)
 Labels and charts can be moved using the new label mover. (Sergei Leschinsky)
 The legend has been updated. (Sergei Leschinsky)
 The GIS Tools has been extended with forms to use the GEOS methods (fast geo-spatial methods
like clipping, intersect, union). (Sergei Leschinsky)
 The Clipper library has been added to the ocx. It is similar as GEOS but works much faster with
large datasets. (Sergei Leschinsky, partially funded by S3 Technologies - South Africa)
 New plug-ins:
 Kriging (Carlos Andres Osorio)
 Accessing geo-databases like SpatiaLite and PostGIS (Poom Malakul Na Ayudhya)
 Geo-referencing and geo-rectifying images (Gerd Dowideit)
 The Watershed delineation plug-in has been updated and is now using TauDEM v5. (Chris
George)
 A symbology manager was introduced. You can now easily switch between previously saved
symbology files. (Sergei Leschinsky)

And of course a lot of bugs have been fixed.

Use http://bugs.mapwindow.org for a list.

What’s New in 4.8 RC1 (4.8.1)

 The installer was rebuild from scratch. All files are checked if they need to be installed.
This resulted in a much slimmer installer (25MB instead of 40MB).
 MapWindow v4.8 requires now Windows XP or higher and .NET Framework v3.5.
 The used supporting libraries (GDAL, GEOS, PROJ4, etc.) have been updated to their latest
stable versions.
 The GPC library is no longer used, because of its unclear license.
 A bookmark menu has been added.
 Some events in the legend control have been fixed, added or enhanced.
 A new, better looking, labeler has been added to MapWinGIS (ocx). In this version the labeler can
only be used in your custom application or using a plug-in or script, the Labeler plug-in in
MapWindow is not yet updated.
 A new toolstrip is being used to replace the standard Microsoft toolstrip.
 A new plug-in: Balloon identifier

A lot of bugs have been solved:

 1086 plugin->online data->settings and preferences->port number
 1304 Installation should not require reboot if Visual C++ redist already installed
 1359 Version 4.7 uninstall removes whole Program Files\MapWindow tree
 1432 System.TypeInitializationException
 1466 Script Window's intellisense do not recognize any MapWindow's assemblies
 1487 Filed splitter function in Table editor
 1496 Uninstalling removes all files, not just MW files
 1519 [Online data plug-in] Any time I add a layer to MapWindow from an online server, it is added,
but all I see is blank window
 1520 Field Calculator, invalid functions that use two or more input parameters
 1524 [Online data plug-in] Saved layers aren't opened
  1528 [Bug]IsValid() on 64Bit always false
 1529 [Supporting libraries] Update libtiff to latest version
 1531 Activating button when other frame active
 1536 [Table editor] Incorrect table records count when opening table
 1542 [Supporting libraries] Update libecw to latest version
 1543 UPS North Projection string
 1544 [Supporting libraries] Update MathParser to latest version
 1554 [Enhancement] Implement IsValidReason()
 1559 [Supporting libraries] Update PROJ4 to latest version
 1560 [Supporting libraries] Update SpatialIndex to latest version
 1572 Incorrect Layer Handle After New Project
 1573 SettingsString empty in MW 4.7.5
 1580 IPlugIn.LayerSelected Fires 2 times
 1596 Power Users membership is enough for installation. No need for Administrator privileges.
 1602 Do we still need the GPC library
 1617 IMapWin.Toolbar.ComboBoxItem(string) does not return toolbar comboboxes
 1620 ComboBoxItem.Name property is not assigned in Toolbar.AddComboBox
 1621 ComboBoxItem.Name is returning the underlying ToolStripComboBox.Tag instead of
ToolstripComboBox.Name
 1622 [Enhancement] Add Events to LegendControl.Legend
 1628 png file very dithered/stippling in MapWindow
 1630 Wrong Brazilian Portuguese translation of menus
 1634 [Enhancement] Add Bookmark Export/Import
 1635 Bookmarked Views menu shows additional empty line at the top of the menu
 1638 [Enhancement] Replace input box with custom "Add New Bookmark" dialog
 1639 [Enhancement] Add "Bookmark Manager" and remove "Delete Bookmarks"
 1641 [Enhancement] Add a Layer Group Changed event
 1642 LegendControl.Legend.MoveLayer does not fire LayerPositionChanged when layer moved
to other group
 1643 LegendControl.Legend.DrawPicture fires an InvalidCastException on frame updates
 1646 Digitizing & Layout Printing Failure In Many PC/Server

What’s New in 4.7 SR (4.7.5)?

 Added Lithuanian translations
 Some new functions introduced in RC3/4 have been renamed
 Some last bug fixes

What’s New in 4.7 RC4?

 Added new beter looking icon, compatible with Vista

 New printing plug-ins replaces old print tool
 Added image layer percent transparency
 New image properties in MapWindow (Use Histogram, Allow Hillshade, Buffersize, Image Color
Scheme, Set to Grey)
 Optimized the labeler when labeling polygons
 Added projection: Google Mercator (EPSG:900913)
 Added support for shapefile Z to shapefile
 Some optimizations for image drawing speed for GDAL-based images and in-memory bitmaps
 Support for zooming with mouse wheel in the ocx
  Minor fixes to progress callbacks to ensure progress reaches 100% completion.
 Added dissolve by attribute function in CShapefile class.
 Performance enhancements for DBF files
 Added the new class: ShapeDrawingOptions
 …and many other bug fixes!

What’s New in 4.7 RC3?

 Added GEOS methods to MapWinGIS (not yet documented,

http://www.mapwindow.org/phorum/read.php?5,13428).
 Added Cache Extents to MapWinGIS (speed optimalisation).
 Added Quadtree to MapWinGIS (speed optimalisation).
 Changed build parameters for MapWinGIS (speed and size optimalisation).
 Added Beta version of new printing capabilities.
 All binaries are compiled in Release mode (speed optimalisation).
 Several bug fixes and enhancement for projections.
 Some tweaks for the script editor regarding C# files.
 …and many other bug fixes!

What’s New in 4.7 RC2?

 Support for ECWP streaming data sources – see “View” menu, then “Add ECWP Layer”. Can be
saved as part of project files.
 Speed updates in MapWinGIS, including updating some depreciated functions.
 Cyrillic shapefile names can now be opened.
 Dynamic visibility for layers and labels is now specified as a scale instead of using current zoom
extent as only option.
 New Spanish translation.
 ECW support returned to latest builds.
 Updated some projection handing code for more flexibility.
 Color entry stability changes in GDAL-driven raster formats.
 Added DisableWaitCursor property on map, which works in most cases.
 Corrected support for Quickbird Panchromatic images.
 Corrected support for KAP imagery.
 Added tkHJustification type hjRaw to MapWinGIS.
 Added TrapRMouseDown property that can be used to avoid triggering the right-mouse zoom out
on the map.
 …and many other bug fixes!